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Auto req ID
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2793BR
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Posting Title
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Linux - IT Engineer
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Position Number
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00000372
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Department
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Information Technology
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No. of Positions
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1
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Location/Division
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Lawrence
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FTE
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1.0
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Reg/Temp
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Regular
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FLSA Status
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Nonexempt
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Employee Class
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U-Unclassified Professional Staff
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Work Schedule
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8 to 5 Monday thru Friday, call
back/ standby eligible.
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Job Family
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Information Technology-KUL
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Position Overview
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Do
you want to work in a dynamic, flexible environment where you can make a
difference?
At KU Information Technology, our employees support the University of
Kansas in its mission to educate leaders, build healthy communities and make discoveries
that change the world. Your knowledge and skills as part of the KU IT
team will help provide the systems and services that students, faculty, staff
and researchers need to gain knowledge, advance scientific discoveries and
find innovative solutions to global problems.
Benefits of working at KU include:
- Friendly, collaborative work environment
- Potential for flexible work hours
- Low-cost health insurance
- Up to 22 vacation days per year
- Approximately 10 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave
- State retirement plan with employer contributions
(currently 8.5% of total compensation)
- Tuition assistance
- Paid life insurance and long-term disability
insurance
- Energetic campus environment located in the center of
a culturally rich college town
The University of Kansas
Enterprise Systems IT Department is hiring a Linux Systems Administrator and
we are looking for candidates that want to work in a friendly, collaborative,
and fast paced atmosphere. Our unit supports the servers that provide
critical services to the University. The ideal candidate is someone who
likes to be challenged, solve problems, and enjoys helping find new ways to
make the current status quo move forward.
Under moderate supervision, this position provides advanced technical
expertise and systems administration tasks working with other members of the
Enterprise Systems team, the manager, and other units as required. Work
with application and service delivery teams to implement and maintain
Linux/UNIX based systems which support delivery of campus and customer IT
services. This individual will also assist project teams with technical
solution creation and planning in the development and implementation of IT
projects.
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Job Description
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60%
- Technical administration of Linux/UNIX based Operating Systems and major
subsystems.
- Installation of version/release, upgrades/security
patches.
- Application of systems analysis techniques and
procedures, including consulting with users and vendors, to provide
hardware, operating system, or application problem resolution.
- Proactive and emergency maintenance.
- Design, develop solutions, analyze, test, and
implement project related IT systems based on user, team, and system
design specifications.
- Configuration and documentation.
- Capacity planning and performance monitoring.
30%
- Technical implementation and support consultant for Third Party
applications and “add ons” in the Linux/UNIX environment
- Installation of version/release, upgrades/security
patches.
- Problem resolution.
- Proactive and emergency maintenance.
- Configuration and documentation.
10%
- Other
- Will be part of the on-call rotation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Security
Responsibilities
- This position shares in responsibility for
information security by following all applicable security policies and
procedures.
- This position is authorized to use elevated privilege
accounts in the performance of job duties.
- This position is authorized to issue password resets
in accordance with established procedure in the performance of job
duties.
- This position is authorized to handle sensitive or
confidential data in accordance with established procedures in the
performance of job duties.
- This position is authorized to provision and
deprovision user accounts and access in accordance with established
procedures in the performance of job duties.
- This position is authorized to manage, provision, and
deprovision IT assets in accordance with established procedures in the
performance of job duties.
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Required Qualifications
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- Associates degree in Computer Science or computer
related field and four years of relevant experience or six years of
combined education and experience.
- Two years of administering Linux/UNIX operating
systems and major subsystems in a medium (10+ systems Linux/UNIX
systems).
- One year of experience with automated or remote
patching systems.
- Experience writing shell script in a Linux/UNIX
environment.
- Experience working in a collaborative team
environment 2 or more people as evidenced through work experience
presented on application materials.
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Preferred Qualifications
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- One year of experience with Red Hat Linux Satellite
Server.
- One year of experience with running Linux/UNIX in a
virtualized environment.
- One year of experience with automated systems
deployment.
- One year of experience with Enterprise level SAN
Storage >100TB in size.
- One year of experience managing centralized
authentication systems in a Linux/UNIX environment.
- One year of experience authenticating Linux/Unix
systems against an Active Directory environment.
- One year of experience with running Linux/UNIX under
VMWare ESX.
- One year of experience with administrating the
monitoring of Linux/UNIX servers.
- One year of experience of managing remote access to
Linux/UNIX servers and applications.
- Experience in process improvement and/or project
management.
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Additional Candidate Instruction
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A
complete application consists of:
- A cover letter addressing how required qualifications
are met.
- Resume
- 3 Professional References
Incomplete applications will not
be considered.
Review of applications begins March 9, 2015, position will remain open until
filled.
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Contact Information to Applicants
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Paul Espinosa, pau...@ku.edu
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Advertised Salary Range
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Contingent on Qualifications
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Application Review Begins
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09-Mar-2015
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Anticipated Start Date
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23-Mar-2015
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Disclaimer
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discrimination on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex,
national origin, age, ancestry, disability, status as a veteran, sexual
orientation, marital status, parental status, gender identity, gender
expression, genetic information and retaliation in the University's programs
and activities. Access to information regarding equal opportunity and
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http://www.humanresources.ku.edu/policies_procedures/category_details/index.aspx?category=8
or you may contact 785-864-4946 or emp...@ku.edu for alternate access
options. Any inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies
should be directed to: Executive Director of the Office of Institutional
Opportunity and Access, I...@ku.edu, 1246 W. Campus Road, Room 153A, Lawrence,
KS, 66045, (785)864-6414, 711 TTY
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